On Fri, 17 May 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> That being said, you'd have to resort to driving the 6522s yourself to
> manipulate the bitstream directly -- very low-level, and of course with the
> small amount of RAM in the 1541 this would require impressively tight code.
> But it is, theoretically, possible at least on some level, even if it's
> merely decoding the bytes and handing them off to the C64 for processing
> (putting the "DOS" in the 64).
Programming 6522's is not that difficult (I've done it before and I'm
working on a project right now that uses one). Isn't there 4K of RAM
inside each 1541? That's a goodly amount of RAM for disk drivers.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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